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Acacia leiocalyx
Also called Curracabah, Early Flowering Black Wattle, Lamb's Tail Wattle
Black wattle (Acacia leiocalyx) is a fast-growing shrub or small tree native to eastern Australia, grown for its pale yellow flower spikes and phyllodes. It suits warm, sunny spots and is tolerant of a range of soils once established.
Acacia leiocalyx, commonly known as blackwattle, early black wattle, early flowering black wattle, lamb's tail wattle or curracabah is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a shrub or tree with fissured, flaky bark, very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic, more or less straight to sickle-shaped phyllodes, spikes of pale yellow, sometimes lemon-yellow flowers and linear, leathery pods slightly constricted between the seeds.
Subspecies herveyensis is restricted th south-east Queensland, where it is found from Yeppoon and south-east to Fraser Island and south to Gympie where it grow in sand beach scrub or in clay soils in forest. It occurs with subsp. leiocalyx in the Gympie-Maryborough area.
The timber is colourful but splits easily even with the end grain sealed.The seeds and gum are apparently edible, but caution should be taken - especially as there are so many difficult to identify similar species.
Acacia abbatiana · Acacia abbreviata · Acacia abrupta · Acacia acanthaster · Harrow Wattle · Acacia acellerata · Gold-dust acacia · Acacia aciphylla · Acacia acoma · Acacia acradenia · Strap Leaved Wattle · Acacia acuaria
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acacia leiocalyx by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
